Excited to share that on July 1st, I’ll be joining the faculty at the @UCIrvine School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior! I’ll still be continuing my VA research as well. Looking forward to expanding my research program @UCIMedSchool! Go ‘Eaters! 🔵🟡

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

Excited to share this new @SchizRes article that examines clinical outcomes and medication adherence in response to oral versus long-acting injectable risperidone in a sample of Black, Latino, and White first-episode #psychosis patients! Check it out here: https://t.co/p4KyJa8E89

Excited to share this new @SchizRes article that examines clinical outcomes and medication adherence in response to oral versus long-acting injectable risperidone in a sample of Black, Latino, and White first-episode #psychosis patients! Check it out here: https://t.co/p4KyJa8E89

Happy #PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Wishing everyone a #PrideMonth filled with celebrations of love and identity in all its forms. You matter and you belong at UC 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍

🚨 New Pub in American Psychologist!🚨 We introduce RECEIPTS—a bold reimagining of suicide theory that centers structural racism as a root cause of suicide risk for Black Americans. This is personal, urgent, and long overdue @DrLeslieAdams @donte_bernard and Janel Cubbage

GLA Research Service celebrates VA Research Week 2025: 100 Years of Research. For more information, visit https://t.co/QilBVgXg2Z. #VAResearch #Veterans #VAResearch_LA #ResearchWeek #100Years

🌟 UCI is hosting their annual Diversifying Clinical Psych Weekend! 🌟 Aimed at supporting underrepresented students in pursuing PhDs in Clinical Psych. 📢 Please share & encourage folks to apply! 📝 Apps open now! btRs://bit.ly/VCI-DW-2025 ❌Closes on 4/25!

1/3: in light of recent developments across the US academic landscape, which might have presented challenges to colleagues, we decided to extend the submission deadline for our three faculty openings focused on depression until May 14, 2025.

Congratulations to @UCIrvine psychological science post-baccalaureate alum (’22) Maya Brown-Hughston, who joins the @IUIndianapolis clinical psychology PhD program in the Fall. At UCI, Maya worked in the labs of associate professors Elizabeth Martin and @angelalukowski.

this is torture https://t.co/K7Wps8tlRW

1/9: Delighted to announce that our faculty cluster hire for the newly established Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine is now live. The submission deadline is April 9, 2025.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration plans to cut over 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo.

83,000 VA employees are set to be fired. These cuts won’t just impact those seeking health care. They will create chaos across every aspect of VA—delaying benefits, straining claims processing, and making it nearly impossible for student veterans and schools to get the assistance

Credit to @seppo_rinne who originally created and shared this graphic on LinkedIn, outlining the impact recent executive orders are having on #VAresearch.

From OSU today: We’re ending all diversity and inclusion programs. Black students, faculty, and staff, you all are not wanted. Also from OSU today: Renew your football season tickets! Black athletes, we want you all to stay. We like to watch you all run, jump, and tackle. Smh

BREAKING: Trump administration issues memo directing federal agencies to plan for sweeping layoffs of government employees.

I'm quoted in this article on how NIH is still blocked from funding new grants. This sabotage makes no sense. Nearly every medicine or treatment you've ever received has roots in NIH-funded research, and every $1 of NIH spending generates $2.46 in returns. https://t.co/rBygM2Mtdm